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the new foliage appearing at about the same time, and the fruit ripens 
about 3 or 4 months later. Disrris.: Salt Range and Punjab 
Himalaya and eastwards to Nepal up to 3,000 ft., also in Assam, 
Bengal, Central India, Orissa, Burma and Malay Peninsula, extend- 
ing to Java and China. The wood of this tree is similar in appear- 
ance to that of L. chinensis, but is softer and less durable. Its medi- 
cinal properties are the same. The leaves when crushed have a strong 
scent of cinnamon, they are used in Assam for feeding the Muga silk- 
worm. 
L. salicifolia, Hook. f. van. laurifolia, F. B.J. v, 167; Prain 
Beng. Pl. 903. Tetranthera salicifolia, Roxb. T. laurifolia, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. iii, 823 ; T. lancezefolia, Roxb. l. c. 822. 
An evergreen bush or small tree ; branchlets puberulous. Leaves sub- 
distichous, 3-5 in. long, variable in shape from elliptic to linear-lan- 
ceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute or acuminate, brownish and 
glabrous above, grey-hoary rarely glabrous beneath ; lateral nerves 
8-15 pairs, prominent beneath ; petioles 4-1 in. Umbels clustered ; 
pedicels short, slender. Stamens 6-9 ; filaments villous. Fruit } in. 
long, narrowly ellipsoid, seated on the funnel-shaped or clavate 
perianth-tube. 
Forests in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh (Brandis). DistTRrB. : 
Outer Himalayan ranges from Nepal to Sikkim, up to 6,000 ft. ; 
also in Assam, the Garo, Khasia and Naga Hills, Bengal Plain, Sun- 
dribuns and Chittagong, extending to Upper and Lower Burma. 
5. NEOLITSEA, Merr.; included under Litsea in Fl. Brit. Ind. 
v, 178. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate opposite or in whorls, 3, 
nerved, more or less lanceolate ; buds perulate. Flowers dicecious, 
in 3-7- fid. umbellules arranged in clusters or short racemes in the 
axils of the upper leaves or on the branchlets between the nodes, 
the clusters with small bracts at their bases ; involucral bracts 4, 
deciduous ; pedicels elongating. Perianth 4-partite. Stamens 
of male flowers 6 ; those of the 2 outer rows eglandular; the inner 
biglandular ; anther-cells all introrse or the lower lateral. Sta- 
minodes of fem. flowers 6, arranged as the stamens, usually linear 
or linear-clayate. Ovary ovoid, style thick, stigma usually peltate, 
in the male flowers none or rudimentary. Fruit a globose or 
elliptic-oblong berry, seated on the slightly enlarged disciform 
